Kandinsky in a sentence

For complete detailed references in French, see the original version at Notes Books by Kandinsky * Wassily Kandinsky, M. T. Sadler (Translator), Adrian Glew (Editor).

For the most part, however, Kandinsky's paintings did not feature any human figures; an exception is Sunday, Old Russia (1904), in which Kandinsky recreates a highly colourful (and fanciful) view of peasants and nobles in front of the walls of a town.

The Life of Vasilii Kandinsky in Russian art: a study of "On the spiritual in art" by Wassily Kandinsky.

In the case of Kandinsky’s piece, the frame is condensed so the background is hardly present in the piece.

I was particularly drawn to some of Kandinsky’s early figurative works, which seemed to have a palette inspired by Maynards Wine Gums, and captivating portraits by female artists like Münter and Erma Bossie.

Also in 1911, Kandinsky painted Bild mit Kreis (Picture With a Circle) which he later called the first abstract painting.

As he stated in Concerning the Spiritual In Art (see below), Kandinsky felt that an authentic artist creating art from "an internal necessity" inhabits the tip of an upward-moving pyramid.

As in his painting of the apocalypse by water (Composition VI), Kandinsky puts the viewer in the situation of experiencing these epic myths by translating them into contemporary terms (with a sense of desperation, flurry, urgency, and confusion).

Bauhaus (1922–1933) Kandinsky taught the basic design class for beginners and the course on advanced theory at the Bauhaus ; he also conducted painting classes and a workshop in which he augmented his colour theory with new elements of form psychology.

Colours are used to express Kandinsky's experience of subject matter, not to describe objective nature.

Der Blaue Reiter lacked a central artistic manifesto, but was centered around Kandinsky and Marc.

Dumont Buchverlag, p. 74. under Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, Georg Muche, Paul Klee, Joost Schmidt, Wassily Kandinsky and Gunta Stölzl, and worked with Marcel Breuer on his innovative chair designs.

During the studies Kandinsky made in preparation for Composition IV, he became exhausted while working on a painting and went for a walk.

Fascinated by Christian eschatology and the perception of a coming New Age, citation a common theme among Kandinsky's first seven Compositions is the apocalypse (the end of the world as we know it).

For Kandinsky, blue is the colour of spirituality: the darker the blue, the more it awakens human desire for the eternal.

He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Kandinsky was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Communist Moscow, and returned to Germany in 1921.

His grandson was musicology professor and writer Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky (1918 – 2000), whose career was both focused on and centered in Russia.

However, the group could not integrate the radical approach of Kandinsky (and others) with conventional artistic concepts and the group dissolved in late 1911.

In addition to painting, Kandinsky was an art theorist; his influence on the history of Western art stems perhaps more from his theoretical works than from his paintings.

In another episode with Münter during the Bavarian abstract expressionist years, Kandinsky was working on his Composition VI.